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1864

Lincoln at the Gates of History

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At the beginning of 1864, the Civil War was far from won; terrible and bloody Union setbacks and casualties lay ahead. Abraham Lincoln was facing a re-election battle as some northern Democrats were ready to start peace talks that could leave the Confederacy a separate slaveholding American nation and as his secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, challenged him for the Republican nomination. But by the end of the year, the war's end was in sight, and slavery was on the verge of extinction.

Despite all the turmoil of war and political infighting, Lincoln also set the stage for a new era of westward expansion. He shaped the decades to come through laws and subsidies that propelled railroads westward, by the Homestead Act that offered western lands to immigrant farmers and by the Act to Encourage Immigration that enabled 615,000 men, women, and children to arrive in America during the Civil War.As the year ended, John Wilkes Booth, who stalked Lincoln throughout 1864, was only a few weeks away from assassinating our greatest president.

©2009 Charles Bracelen Flood (P)2009 Tantor American Civil War Presidents & Heads of State Abraham Lincoln Civil War War Politics & Activism Historical Wars & Conflicts Biographies & Memoirs Military Democrat

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"A brilliant, compelling account of Lincoln's dramatic final full year of life." (Publisher's Weekly)
"A compelling narrative.... Engagingly spun and well documented." (Library Journal)
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This is a masterful narrative about the drama surrounding Lincoln's final year. During this time Lincoln saw the last campaigns of the Civil War, was reelected president and formed his plans to put the country back together.

In 1864 Lincoln struggled with one bloody battle after another, growing war weariness, political opponents wanting to sue for peace with the south and his own secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, trying to become the Republican presidential candidate himself. Lincoln even wrote, in August 1864, "..it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be reelected." But Lincoln got the cooperation of Grant, Sherman and other key generals to work towards success to ensure his reelection.

1864 shows us a man who not only saved this young nation, but also, despite a bloody war, put the nation on the path for westward expansion through the Homestead Act, the Act to Encourage Immigration and railroad construction.

There are many books about Lincoln, but Charles Bracelen Flood presents new, secondary information that is truly fascinating.




A masterful and necessary book!

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Thank God for authors like Flood who bring us the real stories with facts and in-depth research.

So good that I search for his books and buy the hard copies for my library.

A must read for any history buff.

Another exceptional book by Mr. Flood!

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I am not the most read civil war follower or learner but I've read quite a lot ie; every Bruce Catton book...etc. and I loved every minute of this book. I haven't been kept awake by a book in a long time but I felt that excitement again. Even Yankee Plague didn't keep me up. I loved the intimate details and window into the personalities of civil war heroes and the others too! Just saying. Thank you for the gift of your book.

I was thrilled by the intimate details I hadn't read or learned of before.

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I liked the book. But it is overly long for one year of Lincoln's life and the author stuck to the year closely. Considering he gave the Gettysburg about a month before the year began and was dead a couple of months after the end, perhaps 1864 could have been stretched a bit.

The narration is irritating though. It is fascinating that Lincoln was actually a tenor and with a Southern accent but Mel Foster's imitation when quoting Lincoln grates like fingernails on a chalkboard. It would have sufficed once or twice but to carry it through the book is plain annoying.

A bit frustrating

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This book examines the last year and a half of Lincoln's life and the war that he eventually won, but which victory he did not live long enough to savor. I love reading about Lincoln; my admiration only grows for him the more I learn about his life. I sure wish we had a man of his integrity in the white house today.

This book gives a realistic look at the man that was Lincoln and the great things he did as president of the United States, many that did not seem so great at the time. I learned many things that I was not previously aware of, and I like that. This is a good book to read if you like to learn about Lincoln.

The last year of his life

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